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THanks..chard Richard Edwards Breed IV Richard Edwards Breed IV --- On Wed, 7/20/11, BRM <[email protected]> wrote: From: BRM <[email protected]> Subject: Re: ICU To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 9:31 AM ----- Original Message ---- > From: Michael Stahl <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wed, July 20, 2011 8:18:10 AM > Subject: Re: ICU > > On 20.07.2011 13:41, Eike Rathke wrote: > > The most problematic is the RPATH for URE patch, but I have no idea > > anyway how to proceed with libstdc++.so.6 and libgcc_s.so.1 that so far > > were distributed with the URE and are LGPL. If we don't, then the patch > > would be moot. > > that is an interesting point: we currently ship binaries of C++ runtime >libraries in the installation sets. > i know that we do this for Linux and Windows, don't know about other >platforms; presumably relicensing GCC or MSVC runtime under Apache license is >not an option. > > i guess we can probably drop the GCC libraries nowadays, because libstdc++ >doesn't change its ABI as much as it used to, so everybody should have a good >enough one on their system. > > i wonder what would happen if we drop MSVC runtime? > Per MSVC run-time, it is typically good practice to have the installer package the MSVC Run-time redistributable and install it if necessary. The redistributable is provided in two manners: (i) a full installer, and (ii) MSI Merge Modules that you select while building an MSI installer that provides them - e.g. Visual Studios Installer, InstallShield, etc. The difference being that the full installer will install to the system, while (I believe) the MSI Merge Modules put the DLLs into the application installation only. These are primarily provided to ensure the application runs one systems where the user/Microsoft has not already installed the redistributables system-wide (e.g. VS2010 redist on WinXP SP3). Using the full installer would present the user with Microsoft's license for acceptance; where the Merge Modules do not. For that reason the full installer would likely be preferable from a license pov. While it is not licensed under ASL, as that is the generally recommended practice for Windows Installers would that still be possible via Apache guidelines? $0.02 Ben
